"We're talking about collecting here." Terminology doesn't change because you're on a Reddit forum. Stopped at your second paragraph because I feel you're getting a bit silly with the logic. ![]() ![]() Moon Knight because it just happens to be the first time two characters punch each other in the face, rather than a book that has objective indications to have a high demand among collectors? So by your definition, that's not a key? Imagine a collector who finds both that book and that Punisher annual where he fights Moon Knight for the time and is trying to decide which to buy, he should go with Punisher vs. Why? Because the cover has a large amount of sex appeal (to put it nicely). Nothing special happens in that book, and other than it being the last issue of the series, which maybe sometimes generates a small bump, there's nothing special about the book itself. How do we know "starting Elseworlds" is an objectively important thing? And no, Gotham by Gaslight isn't a key book, because obviously nobody cares about the fact that it began Elseworlds. To address your examples, the works of Shakespear are not collected in this sense, so that doesn't apply. All we have is what people were willing to pay a little more to own. ![]() So then how do we measure whether someone "cares" or not, in a semi-objective way? We have no way of telling how much comics fandom personally enjoy a story or value it. Does that mean every book is a key book? I think not, because nobody cares about that lady in the crowd. Every issue is ALSO most likely the first appearance of some character, even if it's just some lady in a crowd scene. Yes, except we're talking about collecting here, not reading.
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